1737 – Need to Talk?
Support lineFree national mental health & wellbeing line. Call or text 1737 any time to talk with a trained counsellor.
Support
Resources
Trans-led and rainbow-affirming support across Aotearoa. You deserve care, and reaching out is a strength, not a weakness.
Crisis & wellbeing
OutLine Aotearoa
Support lineRainbow peer-support line (phone, or webchat at outline.org.nz), staffed by trained LGBTIQ+ volunteers. Open every evening, 6–9pm; leave a message outside those hours and they can call back.
Youthline
Support lineFree, confidential support for young people (12–24) and those who care for them — including gender and sexual identity. Call, free-text 234, or webchat, any time.
Lifeline Aotearoa
Support line24/7 confidential support from trained counsellors and volunteers. Call 0800 543 354, or free-text “HELP” to 4357.
Safe to Talk
Support lineFree, confidential sexual-harm helpline, available 24/7 — call, text 4334, or chat online with a trained specialist.
Suicide Crisis Helpline
Support lineIf you or someone you love is thinking about suicide, free-call TAUTOKO any time to talk with a trained counsellor.
Trans-led support
Gender Minorities Aotearoa
Aotearoa’s trans-led organisation — information, resources, and peer support by and for transgender people. Office hours 10am–6pm weekdays.
Rainbow Path
Support for LGBTQ+ former refugees and asylum seekers building a new life in Aotearoa.
Rangatahi & youth
InsideOUT Kōaro
Works to give rainbow young people across Aotearoa a sense of safety and belonging in their schools and communities.
RainbowYOUTH
Support, information, and advocacy for rainbow young people (27 and under) and their communities, with drop-in centres in the North Island.
Qtopia
Rainbow peer support, groups and advocacy for takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ people and their whānau across Ōtautahi Christchurch and Te Waipounamu (the South Island).
Healthcare
PATHA
The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa — find gender-affirming healthcare guidance and provider information.
Legal & rights
Updating your name & sex details
Since 2023 you can update the registered sex on your birth certificate by self-identification — a simple statutory-declaration process through Births, Deaths & Marriages. You can change your name on the same form.
Community Law
Free, one-on-one legal help for people on low incomes, with 24 centres and outreach clinics across the motu.
Human Rights Commission
Experienced discrimination or harassment? Te Kāhui Tika Tangata offers free, confidential information and a complaints process.
Community
Intersex Aotearoa
The national, intersex-led organisation supporting people with innate variations of sex characteristics, and their whānau.
Takatāpui — a resource hub
Stories, identity and wellbeing resources for takatāpui and their whānau, created by Elizabeth Kerekere with Tīwhanawhana Trust and the Mental Health Foundation.
Le Va — Pasifika rainbow support
Wellbeing support and resources for Pasifika rainbow / MVPFAFF+ communities, with links to Pasifika-led rainbow services.
This list is a starting point and not exhaustive. If a detail here is out of date, please let me know so I can fix it.